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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	flesh_n	flower_n	grass_n	2,824	5	11.0191	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14996	A caveat for the couetous. Or, A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, vpon the fourth of December, out of Luke. 12. 15. By William Whatelie, preacher of the word of God, in Banbury; Caveat for the covetous.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1609 (1609)	STC 25300.5; ESTC S105709	57,700	142

Psal 39.6 Man walketh in a shadow he troubles himselfe in vaine euery man heapes vp and knowes not who shall gather it Will it not say A flowre 1. Pet. 1.24 for all flesh is grasse and the glory thereof as the flowre of grasse Will it not say lies Psal 62.9 Eccle 1.2 The chiefe men are liers Will it not say Vanitie for All is vanitie Wil it not say Nothing as Salomon Prou. 23.7 Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon it and it is not it hath no being Eyther challenge God of folly or falshoode which hath called this wealth shadowes flowers lyes vanitie nothing or else yeeld that we haue been deceiued in thinking better of it Wil we not see our errour and confesse that wee haue beene cousoned as children with gawdes and now begin to trust our fathers iudgement But you shall see that it is not without cause vilified with these titles and if you will but lend an heart to iudge as an eare to heare you shall perceiue as cleare as noone day that they be as vnprofitable as any shadow What will you terme that that can do no good to soule body name state nor keepe any euill from soule body name state nor mittigate such euils as a man is pressed withall in any of these respects Euery man will yeeld it may well be called a thing of nought and cannot well be called by a better name Beleeue not shewes and conceits and then be your selues iudges if wealth I meane ouerplus of maintenance can doe any thing in any of the forenamed respects 1. Soule for getting good things of it What is good for the soule but faith repentance the spirit of God the answering of our praiers the pardon of our sinnes and the attaining of eternall life And I pray you can you buy these things for money can you purchase them with Iewels or get them for exchange of goods will God giue heauen to any man if hee will morgage a faire liuing to him for it Will he giue him faith that can bring a rich Iewell or a purse of golde for it or will he heare his prayers any whit sooner in his need that is clad in cloth of gold and hath thousands by the yeare than if he went in meane apparell had not twice twenty pound nay twenty pence yearely or is there any commuting of penance in heauen or can we by a great fine answere for a fault Indeed if any of you be so blockish as to beleeue the palpable deceits of popish Rome some of these things are set to sale there and there you may buy indulgences and pardons but we know well enough that Rome and heauen stand a good way a sunder and they be not ruled by the same lawes neyther wil God stand to those bargaines that the Pope makes for money You haue all yeelded now that for soule money cannot bring any good to it But what 2. Body for the same respect cannot it profit the body more Aske experience Will wealth buy health will it purchase ease or a good nights rest or an houres sleepe or a good stomack or any of these things that are lesse then these Answere what you know by proofe will wealth buy these things and what is the body the better for it then But yet perhaps the name may be more beholding to it 3. The Name It will surely bring credit and good estimation Indeed here if in any thing the rich man magnifies himselfe aboue the poore because he takes himselfe to be in better reputation But here if in any thing he is most of all deceiued I confesse it makes him think much better of himself but neither God nor man doe thinke the better Yea God and good men thinke the worse of him for this If it come in by violence oppression robbery and vniustice you will yeeld that no man hath the better liking of one for such wealth But say that a man hath not waded through these filthy and stinking guzzels to get it but haue come vnto it in the most cleanly manner as some but not the most doe it shall be plaine if any reason will rule vs that it cannot get a good name or credit For say what will you call credit to haue cap and curtesie and a bended knee and a few complements of behauiour acted vnto your silken coate or before your selfe it may be or to be looked after and gazed vpon by the deceiued multitude and to be followed by a great number of hangbyes that runne after you as Eagles after a dead carkasse to feede vpon you Is this credit is this estimation to be crouched vnto as a little curre doth to a mastiffe to be soothed vp and heare faire words to be all besprinkeled with courtholy water euery day in a word to be stabd with the cut-throat kindnesse of flatterie If you call this credit and if this be the good name you talke of it is euen a fit thing to bee gotten with wealth an vnprofitable credit an vncomfortable credit an hurtfull credit with vnprofitable vncomfortable and hurtfull riches And if any man haue but a graine of wisdome he will see that this is sar from credit or a good name But if it be to be vvell esteemed of in the hearts of men to finde reuerence in their soules to haue their consciences commend one and their inward man set him as it were in a good roome of the affections and their priuate thoughts to yeeld a good testimonie for him If I say this be accounted credit as it is indeed a man is neuer a whit the neerer to it for abundance of goods That will make men fawne and wag the taile as a curre vpon his maister that is at dinner to get a bone yea and perhaps also to licke ouer his sores with a poysoning not an healing tongue for in this a flatterer is ten times worse then a dog yea he is a venimmouthed dog but behinde his backe and in his absence none shall be more readie to talke of his saults to deride them to blaze them to disgmce them than he that crouched so much in his presence and did him so much as you please to call it credit to his face yea and in the middest of all this crouching no mans heart doth more loath abhorre scorne and contemn him than the man that is so seruile and officious because of wealth And this is all that wealth can procure for the name but nothing vnder heauen can make the hearts of men to reuerence any and their soules to haue in good account yea and prefer him in their mature iudgement euen before themselues Nothing can doe this I say but grace and vertue true pietie true holinesse and godlinesse of conuersation to which money cannot helpe a man A poore man that fares but reasonably and goes in ordinary attire and cannot shew either money or lands of his own in any great abundance shall yet if